Financial Data Engineer

Overview

The Reference & Security Master Development Team is responsible and accountable for the architecture design, software engineering, integration, and deployment of large‑scale market data initiatives in support of MSCI’s multi asset class suite of products across Enterprise Portfolio Management and Analytics, ESG, Index, Private Asset, and Stand‑Alone Data businesses. The global reference data team consists of highly motivated, multi‑talented and experienced technology developers with broad content backgrounds working in a fast paced and results‑oriented Agile development environment, leveraging modern and innovative technologies.

The scope of market data spans equity and derivatives markets, fixed income, securitized, credit and legal entity/issuer content.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry‑leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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• Software Engineering -- architect, design and develop secure, high performance, scalable & maintainable applications using appropriate architectural patterns and modern innovative technologies
• Coordination and collaboration with internal OneMSCI Stakeholders -- Research & Product Management, Operations & Data Content Services, and Infrastructure teams.
• Convert business requirements into applications and tools in alignment with product functionality and content roadmaps
• Improve and create a modern and sophisticated platform using latest technologies and following industry best practices
• Evaluate different Architectural & Design approaches, solutions, frameworks & technologies
• Develop best practices for architecture, design, coding & automated test coverage
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture team to develop & use common Architectural principles
• Develop, document and deploy reliable and scalable software to automate the operation and management of MSCI market data, and terms & condition databases
• Ensure optimal availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of real‑time application development through advocating engineering reliability into the development life cycle with a focus on fault tolerant approaches
• Develop and maintain automated testing framework for continuous integration and deployment
• Working in Dev Ops model to support automated monitoring, telemetry, and feedback of production processes
• Prepare written and diagramed architecture, design, and workflow proposals for both internal technology teams and management presentations

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, or a related sciences/technology field, or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of experience in any/all of:
  Python, Perl, C/C++, Linux/Unix, Git Version Control, PL/SQL, Microsoft Azure & Dev Ops pipeline development
• Proficiency in SQL/Relational databases:
  Oracle, SQL Server, Azure SQL, Postgres
• Experience with and demonstrated capabilities in big data environments and cloud…